2 Sarah Pinsker first editions are documented on this shelf, from A Song for a New Day (2019) to Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea (2019) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Sarah Pinsker title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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A Song for a New Day — 2019 · BerkleyBerkley (Penguin Random House) trade paperback original, published September 10, 2019, in wraps. First printing has the full number line ending in 1 and the printed cover price. The first edition is a trade PAPERBACK. Won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel; the author's first novel. The true first is the Berkley trade paperback original (2019). There was no hardcover first edition; the book debuted in trade paperback and ebook. No book club edition. The trap is expecting a hardcover; the first edition is a paperback original. Confirm the full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea — 2019 · Small Beer PressSmall Beer Press (Easthampton, Massachusetts), a trade paperback original published March 2019; a collection of thirteen short stories and the author's first book. As a paperback original there is no number line convention beyond the first printing; the ISBN is 978-1-61873-155-5, and the ebook (978-1-61873-156-2) was issued simultaneously. Signed copies exist. It should be identified as first printing with no…. The US Small Beer Press 2019 trade paperback original is the true first edition of this story collection; it is a paperback original with no preceding hardcover. It won the Philip K. Dick Award announced in 2020. Later printings and reissues are reprints, not the first edition; check the copyright page for any added printing statement.

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